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Battersea 1896

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1896

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Deaths occurring within the parish, of persons not belonging
thereto:
In the Union Infirmary 242
In the Bolingbroke Hospital 11
In the Westminster Union Schools 3
Elsewhere 10
Total 266
Deaths occurring outside the parish, of persons belonging
thereto:
Union Workhouse, Wandsworth 7
General and Special Hospitals 195
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals 59
County and other Lunatic Asylums... 46
Elsewhere (including River Thames) 12
Total 319
Table I. This table contains details of the deaths of
Battersea parishioners in Metropolitan public institutions without
the parish. The disease from which death ensued, the sex, age,
and particular class of institution are herein indicated, as well as
the localities in which other parishioners lost their lives or were
found dead, which latter require no comment, the causes of
death being set out in the table.
The particulars of deaths of non-parishioners dying within
the parish will be found in Table IX. and following tables.